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"Animal Farm", a fairy story, is a short novel by George Orwell. It describes a farm where animals revolt, take over and drive out men. It is an apologue written in the form of an animal fable, but also a dystopia. In this novel, Orwell offers a satire of the Russian Revolution and a critique of the Soviet regime, particularly Stalinism, and beyond that, authoritarian regimes and totalitarianism. The book was named one of the 100 best English-language novels written from 1923 to 2005 by Time magazine.

A collection of thirty short stories that move along the edges of the existential and the social, the tender and the ironic. Set against the backdrop of Greece , and drawing deeply from its unique spirit and contradictions, each story reveals a subtle fracture in the surface of daily life, where a person confronts themselves, the systems that enclose them, and the illusions they invent just to endure. These are finely tuned explorations of the human psyche —part microscope, part mirror— unveiling the quiet absurdities we all share .

Former Green Beret turned history teacher Michael Bennit likes to inspire his students. After losing a bet to one of his classes, he finds himself running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Partnering with his students to campaign exclusively on social media, the race turns into a national sensation, and a sleazy incumbent fanatical about hanging onto his power becomes desperate to destroy it- at any cost.

Mit ihrer eingeschworenen Frauen-Clique, einigen Gin Tonics und noch mehr Zigaretten manövriert sich die Politikerin Catharina Cornelius im Bonn der späten 70er hinreissend klug durch den Sumpf der Altherren-Elite. Als die Liberale aber völlig überraschend zur Außenministerin und Vizekanzlerin wird, reiben sich überrumpelte Kollegen in höchsten Regierungskreisen fassungslos die Augen. Die konservative Opposition überschlägt sich mit hämischen Kommentaren. Die Herren Journalisten lächeln süffisant und spitzen die Feder.

The Osseomancer is finally vanquished, but the work has only just begun. When the mage Snorri and his aide Nauveena convene a council to discuss how best to rebuild, all those who fought against the Osseomancer come to attend. Nauveena expects such a council to be easy, especially compared to years of war. But soon enough, she learns that politics might be more difficult than magic. Differences forgotten during the war are quickly remembered. Each member of the council arrives at Athyzia wishing to build a lasting peace, but each has their own idea of what that peace should look like.

Born in the frozen heart of Soviet Russia, Nikolai Ivanov was never an ordinary child. With ice in his veins, steel in his soul, and strength beyond his years, his journey from boy to legend was forged in blood, discipline, and unbreakable will. Trained by a war-hardened father and guided by an unshakable instinct for justice, Nikolai is more than a prodigy—he is a force destined to shape history. As the world around him plunges into war, betrayal, and moral decay, the boy becomes a warrior... and the warrior becomes a weapon. From the brutal winters of St.

In a dorm room at her safety school, surrounded by corn-fed boys and contemptuous girls, Alice is losing her mind. Her first semester is spent clinging to middling grades between drunken hookups and roommate fights. The next brings sleepless nights, extreme weight loss, and effortless, compulsive energy, paused only by an unexpected summoning from the RA for evaluation.

You’re not imagining it. The people vanishing. The headlines that disappear. The unease you can’t quite name. Caleb is a crisis PR fixer who specializes in erasing scandals—until a classified file crosses his desk and shatters everything he thought was safe. What begins as a routine cover-up spirals into a hidden war involving experimental memory tech, missing children, and a broadcast that was never meant to air. Pursued by agents, activists, and ghosts from his past, Caleb must decide what he believes—and who he becomes—when every version of the truth is weaponized.

At the turn of this century, a homeless man was allowed to win the lottery. It was hoped that he would change the world for the better, forever. After 12 years, SomeplacElse, his divinely inspired utopian experiment in the sub-urban Arizona desert, has reached critical mass. As Fate would have it, over the next five days the stories of a chronically underemployed baby boomer and a soon-to-be-governor, playboy millionaire will determine the future of this earthly Eden.

Poco antes de la muerte de Franco, en la madrugada del 27 de septiembre de 1975, tres jóvenes fueron ejecutados en la sierra de Madrid. Daniel, Hidalgo y Pito habían sido detenidos y torturados por la policía, acusados de matar ese verano a un policía y a un guardia civil. La condena se impuso sin juicio legal y de forma precipitada, después de una farsa militar en la que no hubo pruebas ni posibilidad de defensa. Junto a otras dos ejecuciones, aquellos jóvenes fueron los últimos fusilados por el Régimen.

Khelina Cunningham es una mujer brillante, marcada por heridas que se esconden tras una coraza de control y perfección. En el vibrante y competitivo mundo político de Washington D. C., cada paso, cada elección, puede cambiarlo todo. Hugo Harper lo sabe bien. Ambicioso, influyente y enigmático, ha aprendido que confiar puede ser su mayor debilidad… hasta que la conoce a ella.

One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima’s masterpiece about the erotics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide. By now, Yukio Mishima’s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima was able to give his heartwrenching patriotic idealism an immortal vessel.

Auxilio Lacouture is trapped. For twelve days she hides alone in a lavatory on the fourth floor of her university. A highly charged first-person semi-hallucinatory novella, Amulet is a potent stream of consciousness through which the poets of Mexico rage and swirl.

Легендарный роман о городе Санта-Тереза, расположенном на мексикано-американской границе, где сталкиваются заключенные и академики, американский журналист, сходящий с ума философ и таинственный писатель-отшельник. Этот город скрывает страшную тайну. Здесь убивают женщин, количество погибших растет с каждым днем, и вот уже многие годы власти ничего не могут с этим поделать. Санта-Тереза охвачена тьмой, в городе то ли действует серийный убийца, то ли все связала паутина масштабного заговора, и чем дальше, тем большая паранойя охватывает его жителей.

For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state.

Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-20th century. Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil step her mother’s formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism.

Tudor England. The word treason is on everyone's lips. Arbella Stuart, niece to Mary, Queen of Scots, and presumed successor to Elizabeth I, has spent her youth behind the towering windows of Hardwick Hall. As presumed successor to the throne, her isolation should mean protection - but those close to the crown are never safe. Aemilia Lanyer, writer and poet, enjoys an independence denied to Arbella. Their paths should never cross. But when Arbella enlists Aemilia's help in a bid for freedom, she risks more than her own future.

In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family's generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school and an aide to the great New York senator Henry Bonwiller, who is running for president of the United States.

Hat, ribbon, bird rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother of four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling. How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?